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[Letter to] My Dear Garrison [manuscript]

by: Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient

Publication date: 1866

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, Copperhead movement

Publisher: New York, [N.Y.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 10.3M

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

Letter addressed from "90 East 12th St., New York"

Johnson informs Garrison that Joseph and Mary Post are "overjoyed" to be receiving Garrison, and that the arrangements for his lecture have been made. Johnson states that he went to Brooklyn to see Henry Ward Beecher speak, and reports that he came away feelinq quite "disappointed and saddened", stating that Beecher's close associates were left "mortified" by his address, which "delighted the Copperheads". Johnson remarks that off all the city's newspapers, only the Tribune has been withholding praise for Beecher